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Grooving to health: Singer Madonna is well-known for her love for working out. Photo from madonnascrapbook.blogspot.com Many Filipinos regard exercise as a fad, or chore, or merely a sign of personal virtue. But being physically active is natural for humans, as it is for all animals. We’re wired for it. Thus, the largely sedentary existence of vast numbers of people is a historical aberration of the past century, made possible primarily by labor-saving devices, motor vehicles, desk jobs, and increased leisure time spent in front of TVs and computers. Our sedentary lifestyles, together with the obesity epidemic they help foster, have taken a big toll on our health. They have put a drag on the improvements in well-being and longevity made possible by medical advances and positive lifestyle changes, such as the reduction in smoking rates in recent years. It’s tempting to think that feeling fatigued, being winded when going up the stairs, and no longer being able to carry heavy bags, are natural parts of aging. But many of the declines in physiological functioning we associate with getting older are largely the consequence of inactivity and being unfit. Being physically fit won’t stop the biological clock, of course, but it can slow it down. “Use it or lose it” is truer than ever. Many people say that they do want to be fit, but they don’t know how. Today’s article offers a scientific but practical guide on how you can achieve lifelong fitness. The elements of fitness There are Read More …

Vanessa Matsunaga says Daniel has become busier since he won in PBB: All In: “I  miss him… my movie buddy and food buddy.”

Pancho Magno says joining body fashion shows entails a lot of pressure.

California has been besieged by unusual episodes of high temperatures over the past weeks to the discomfort of even the sun-lovers. For the record, the phenomenon is worldwide with the National Climatic Data Center report that “the planet had its hottest summer on record and is well on its way to having the hottest year ever”. The global temperature for summer was 1.28 degrees above the 20th-century average of 61.5 degrees. Climatologists define summer as the months of June, July and August with the last month on the list “setting an overall record in temperature with even the largest departure from average of any month”. Former World Boxing Champ at Wild Card: Former IBF World Flyweight titlist, Rolando Bohol, now a web designer/entrepreneur based in Las Vegas, beams a his friend from California documents his visit to Wild Card Boxing Gymn in Los Angeles where his fellow champion Manny Pacquiao used to train for his many successful fights. The California visit is the first outing for Bohol since calling the U.S. his adopted home many years ago. August of this year recorded the 38th consecutive August (and the 354th consecutive month) that saw a global temperature above historic averages.  The last recorded below-average for August was in 1976. The assessment had been culled from the record going as far back at 1880. For the year to-date, 2014 is the third-warmest year on record. Correspondingly, there has been a noticeable increase advertisements from every media available for consumer to take advantage on the Read More …